Friday, May 29, 2009

I'm still too fuzzy-headed to do any serious posting -- perhaps after the weekend -- but, to tide you over till then, I thought I'd post a video clip I'd never seen before. It's a test animation Ray Harryhausen did in 1949 for a War of the Worlds film that was ultimately never made. Fascinating stuff.

That alien looks the closest to what HG Wells described in his War Of The Worlds. It could have been less anthropomorphic (HG Wells') were mutant man sized Octopuses with an exposed audio nerve in the back. They were perpetually sick and lethargic because the Earths gravity was about twice that of Mars and it was too cold and dry compared with what Martians had back home. So, that part of the animation is true to text.

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